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The IAAF Council chaired by President Lamine Diack today met in the Fairmont Hotel, Monaco, for the first of a two-day meeting, the 187th gathering of the executive of Athletics’ world governing body.

IAAF Hall of Fame – 12 legends to be inducted

The names of 12 athletes who will compose this year’s induction into the IAAF Hall of Fame which was inaugurated last year as part of the IAAF’s centenary celebrations were announced.

The very strict minimum criteria (PDF) agreed last year to select the inaugural list of 24 members - click here for ‘class of 2012’ - was at least 2 Olympic or World titles plus at least 1 World record. This criteria was extended for ‘2013 and beyond’ to allow athletes whose achievements had an ‘extraordinary impact on our sport’ to be considered as well. All members must have been retired from the sport for a minimum of 10 years.

To keep the process as independent and as transparent as possible the athletes considered for each induction are proposed by the IAAF Hall of Fame Selection Panel which consists of 5 athletics historians, all long-standing members of the Association of Track and Field Statisticians (ATFS) including its President. The Panel is chaired by IAAF Senior Vice President Bob Hersh, who has himself been a member of the ATFS for more than 35 years.

The 24 inaugural members inducted in 2012 will be joined in 2013 by the following dozen athletes with the ceremony taking place on Saturday afternoon (16) in the Fairmont Hotel.

Council, upon the recommendation of the Doping Review Board, upheld the decision not to ratify Ms Thiam’s performance in Ghent on 3 February 2013 as the World Junior Indoor Record for the Pentathlon in accordance with IAAF Rule 260.6.

COMPETITION

IAAF World Relays – Nassau, Bahamas – 24/25 May 2014

Council approved the following Entry Standards:

4 x 100m Men 38.90 / Women 43.80

4 x 400m Men 3:04.10 / Women 3:33.00

Qualification Period: 1st January 2013 – 12 May 2014

IAAF Race Walking Challenge 2014

Council approved the Calendar for the Challenge (downloadable as a pdf to the right of these Council notes under 'Related Documents')

World Athletics Series 2014

Progress Reports were delivered by the Local Organising Committees of the five IAAF World Athletics Series events which will take place in 2014, summaries of which are being published as separate stories on the IAAF website:

• CECS Level I Coaches’ Courses: 17 Courses were held for 361 participants, of whom 261 qualified as CECS Level I Coaches and are now working with young athletes. 13 of these Courses were funded by Member Federations and 4 were funded by the Olympic Solidarity

IAAF YouTube channels deliver content to over 12,000 subscribers – and have received 4 million views of 1500 videos throughout the year.

The final episode of Athletix in October ends the 9th year of programming to an audience of approximately 500,000 worldwide.

Live streaming of World Athletics Gala

The World Athletics Gala 2013 will be produced with live streaming on the official IAAF YouTube channel. In addition, broadcasters taking the event include Austrian, Moroccan, Algerian, Bulgarian, Japanese and South African TV networks, as well as TV news agency Perform and IAAF TV news feed. In addition, Eurosport is broadcasting its 30-minute show “GREENE LIGHT” with Maurice Greene in Monaco prior to their broadcast of the Gala.